People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.

The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

The brain abhors discrepancies.